The City of Light is the first stop of a European tour. But “while the Alvin Ailey dancers perform nightly to urbane audiences at a concert hall on the western edge of Paris, another scene unfolds during the day across town at the Georges Bizet public conservatory.”
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Creating A True Acoustical Surround Sound
One of the wildly cool tools available at Empac, at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: “The wave system, a modular array of more than 500 speakers, uses acoustical trickery to reproduce organic sounds with unusually high fidelity. It can also “place” (and seem to move, quickly) those eerily lifelike tones at specific coordinates. Any but the most superficial kind of explanation of how this is possible tends to involve high math (like Bessel functions). But if you had to describe the effect, you might go for trippy and exciting.”
The Potential NPR Strike Has Been Averted As Union Reaches A Deal With Management
The US will still have radio news (and a zillion podcasts): “The union said that the deal provides for salary increases and ‘effectively repelled efforts to erode union protections and institute a two-tiered salary system.’ SAG-AFTRA represents about 430 writers, news producers and on-air journalists at NPR.”
The New York Times Explains Itself (To The Beyoncé Fans, Anyway)
Hmmmm. “Sometimes a story can sit completed for hours — or, like in this case, weeks — just waiting for that official word. It’s crucial for us to remember that when a story is published by The Times it becomes part of the historical record, so giving in to the knee-jerk impulse to go for the clicks or be part of the conversation is unwise.”
When Selfies Go Way Wrong, Like 200,000 Dollars Worth Of (Ruined) Art Wrong
Whoops. Very, very much whoops, at a gallery in Los Angeles.
Breaking The Network Emmy Drama Curse
Perhaps the power of prestige TV is waning, or else network TV is stepping up: For the first time since 2011, a broadcast show broke through the cable and streaming noise.
Agatha Christie Was Not Cool With Unflattering Author Photos
Whoops: “What ticked Christie off the most, quite understandably, was a comment from theatre producer Bertie Meyer, who decided to tell the author, after seeing her recent publicity shot, that, ‘Frankly, Agatha, that photo makes you look about 70.'”
Chocolate Is An Essential At The BBC Proms, Plus More Proms Info And Tips
Apparently, opera sounds better at the Proms? “The amazing thing about opera at the Proms is it’s like lifting the lid on the engine of opera, because you can see into the orchestra all the time. It’s like you’re enmeshed in it.”
A Stuntman On ‘The Walking Dead’ Has Died After An On-Set Accident
John Bernecker, a 33-year-old stuntman for the popular zombie show, “reportedly fell more than 20 feet from a balcony onto a concrete floor, suffering a head injury.”
Newsflash, People: Jane Austen Wasn’t Shy About Her Writing
And add this total horse hooey to the pile of conveniently told canards: “Dramatic new flourishes to the story continue to pop up, too. The Telegraph recently referred to Austen ‘stuffing her scrawled pages into her dress whenever someone entered the room’ — a detail straight out of Samuel Richardson’s best-selling novel, ‘Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded,’ published in 1740-41. Imagining Austen shoving papers into a flimsy Regency frock in front of a parlor window may well be your idea of a good time. If so, enjoy the imaginary peep show, but don’t call it history.”